Spacecraft momentum dumping using gravity gradient

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 714-717

  Tong, Donald ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GYROSCOPES; ORBITS; PROPELLANTS;

SPACECRAFT MOMENTUM DUMPING;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032157686     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3389     Document Type: Article

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